Yeah, Apache Cordova (where I am a PMC and committer) will not invest any more time into the plugin, and if you look at the issues on Github it seems to slowly break down already.

Personally I see that people have the need for this, but with very different feature sets, which is probably one of the reasons why nobody created a good, stable fork

I am pretty sure there actually are loads of working forks, but nobody published their one yet but all keep them private. Loads of Cordova apps out there still work with contacts, and that is the only real explanation I have.

@Sujan12 thx for confirmation, even if I had hope to hear something else

kind of crazy that no one stepped out to properly maintain the plugin more than one year after it was deprecated, specially a plugin which is download more than 5000 times a week according npm…sad word

also I was hoping that their might be an alternative somewhere out there, that was also the first idea of this post, but seems that there aren’t … but if someone has one for sure ping me